Improved box for mustard and the like articles



the city and State of New York, have UNITED STATES PATENTY OEEicE..

ROBERT W. BETTS, OF NEV YORK, N.r Y.

Specification forming part of-Letters Patent No. 42,549, dated May 3, 1864.

To all whom, t may concern Be it known that I. ROBERT WV. BETTs, of invented, made, and applied to use a certain new and useful Improvementin Boxes for Mustard and other Articles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the said invention, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, wherein- Figure l is an elevation of said box, and Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the saine.

Similar marks of reference denote the saine parts. A

Boxes for containing mustard and other substances have heretofore usually been made of metal, which is unnecessarily costly, as said boxes are usually destroyed when empty. W`ood has been employed in connection with metal rims at the end, and boxes made entirely of paper are wellknown.

The nature of my said invention consists in a box formed with a paper body and end inclosed by a metal base and iiange, and provided with a cover having a metal rim. A box formed in this manner is much cheaper than those heretofore made, at the same time having a neat appearance; and inlconsequenoe of the manner of putting on the flanged base or bottom the paper forming the sides is so confined to the interior paper base that the parts cannot accidentally become separated. This mode of constructing` boxes produces a new and useful article of manufacture.

a is a cylinder, of paper of or of card or paste board,

In the drawings, suitable thickness,

the edges of which are to be lapped and glued together, so as to form a suffi ciently strong cylinder.

card-board or paper, forming the inner end at the bottom 'of the box; and c is the metal base to said box with aiiange turned up on its edges, as at l l. This flange l l is to be slightly conical, in order that the metallic base c cannot be disconnected from the lower end of the cylinder a. This flange may be pressed into this conical form after the base has been put on the box; but if the iiange of said metal base is first formed tapering or conical, the bottom end of the cylinder a may be forced out into it by pressing in the paper or pasteboard end b after said cylinder has been setinto the metallic lianged base.

dis the cover of the box, made of metal, with the rim 2 passing over the outside of the cylinder a, and capable of easy removal.

A label or wrapper of thin paper may. be pasted around the box, as shown by the red lines.

Vhat I claim, and ters Patent, is-

The box of paper or pasteboard with an indesire to secure by Letthe metallic liange'd base or end c, :as set forth. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my signature this 19th day of March, 1864.

ROBERT W. EETTs.

Wfitnesses LEMUEL W. SEERELL, GHAs. H. SMITH.

b is the circular or other shaped piece of I ner end, b, of similar material, and inclosed by 

